meroic

Pertaining to the ancient African civilization south of Egypt with the capital city Meroë.

Group C, contemporaneous with the Middle Empire, underwent, on the contrary, an opposite current of negroid influence as we have already emphasized and which increases in intensity starting with the Meroic era (cFigure 2).

The ultimate origins of iron in east Africa, then, must remain conjectural, though a spread from Meroe up the Nile to the Lake Victoria region is the most plausable route at the moment, and Meroic furnaces and tool styles are similar to those in East Africa.

Alternative form of Meroitic.

In 1974 (28th January to 3rd February), a seminar was held in Cairo under the auspices of UNESCO where some twenty specialists came together to discuss the settlement of ancient Egypt and the deciphering of the Meroic language.

The Meroic Script indigenized the Egyptian hieroglyphic writing and invented an alphabet of 23 letters, containing details of correspondence between the central government and provinces, trade and administrative matters.

Pertaining to nephridia that are formed by longitudinal or traverse fragmentation of a single original pair of embryonic rudiments in each segment.

Characteristic traits, all apomorphies, are perichaetine setae, tubulo-racemose prostates, avesiculate meroic nephridia and opisthogastry (the development of intestinal gizzards, which in this genus are multiple in the region of segments 20–26).

Due to the somewhat macerated specimens Michaelsen (1933) was not able to recognize the structure of the excretory system in the type species, however, he found it meroic at W. beauforti.